Improvement in grave-mounds



J. R. ABRAMS.

Grave-Mounds.

Patented May 19, I874.

ATTBBNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFrcn JOSEPH ABRAMS, OF GREENVILLE, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAVE-MOUNDS.

Specification forming part of LBlZlKIS Patent No. 151,070, dated May 19,1874; application filed March 21, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH It. ABRAMS, of Greenville,in the county ofButler, in the State of Alabama, have invented .a new and ImprovedGrave-Mound; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaeeompanyin g drawings forming a part of this specification, in which-Figure l is a side elevation partly broken out. Fig. 2 is a bottom view,one elliptical ring being attached to the dome.

The invention relates to means whereby the dome of a grave-mound may beadapted to graves of different length and size by fitting theretosuccessively-increasing elliptical pieces, as hereinafter fullydescribed, and

pointed out in the claim.

A represents the dome of a grave-mound, and B subjacent and ellipticalsupportingpieces, which are made independent and of different size, butall bearing a definite shape relatively to the said dome and to eachother. I cast the dome with inner lugs a a, placed preferably, but notnecessarily, at the ends, and also east each size of the ellipticalpieces B separately, and with corresponding lugs b b. By means of theselugs and the clampscrews 0, several sections are attached firmlytogether. A party has thus only to select the particular design orpattern of dome which pleases his taste, and by connecting there withmore or less of the subjacent elliptical pieces, the mound is readilyadapted to the size of grave required for the deceased. 0rdinarilyvarious sizes of dome and subjacent pieces were necessarily required inorder to meet the public demand.

' My invention constitutes an improvement in grave-mounds, which is notonly convenient and much less expensive to the dealer in articles of thekind, but equally so to the public.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A grave-mound,having dome A and different-sized subjacent elliptical pieces B, all

independent of each other, but relatively ar-

